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Intelligence on Tap\u00a0Vas opens by showing me that every company can now buy the same frontier intelligence, from Claude Code to Codex to Cursor, which turns the raw model into a commodity. Because everyone taps the same stack, the advantage shifts to where, how, and why a business applies it \u2014 the exact territory of the forward deployed engineer.\n\n2. The Palantir Blueprint\u00a0Vas draws on friends who worked as Palantir FDEs to explain the origin of the role. Palantir built a customizable ontology, sent engineers on-site to learn each client's workflows, and spun up dashboards and agents tuned to that specific business \u2014 essentially consulting for the software age.\n\n3. Where Intelligence Belongs\u00a0We dig into FDE judgment: choosing which steps of a workflow deserve an LLM and which stay as deterministic software or simple if-then logic. 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